Who was Abu Hanifa?

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Al-Nu'man ibn Thabit, Abu Hanifa (699–767), was the imam of rational jurisprudence in Kufa. He was the first of the four imams of the schools and the one with the most followers in the Muslim world. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas